What feelings arise when you bash another person's beliefs?

Question

a) intellectual superiority

b) schoolyard bully

c) revenge

d) control

what are your personal reasons for disparaging others and their beliefs?

Answer 1

i always try not to bash other believes and do try to respect but i only react when someone bash my believes for something stupid and irrelevent to my religion plus the person him/herself is worse in it !

But i think its always a feeling of "revenge". when someone bash others..they simplye want to look down others..i won't call it intellectual superiority but simply a negative "complex" of someone's personality which is lacking the tolerance for others !

Answer 2

I generally try not to bash other people's beliefs if I can help it. I try to take a step back & look at it from another perspective. When I do find myself doing that, it's usually in order to defend my own personal belief system. So many people feel threatened by different ways of thinking.

The more I've listened to everyone's beliefs, the more I've found that everything is incredibly similar (including religion).

Answer 3

I cringe. I don't like hearing any race being bashed. On a side note, one of the things I hate the most is when I hear a black person call another black person the N word. I've never understood this.

Answer 4

When I show another person the error of their belief system by pointing them to Jesus who is the way, the truth and the life I feel hopeful that God will give them the gift of faith in order to receive salvation while at the same time feeling sorry that they may just harden their hearts and continue on in their unbelief leading to eternal separation from God. I try never to disparage another person who is created in God's image. I only try to shine the light of God's truth into their life.

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Answer 5

I state what I do not agree with or like about another religion and it's beliefs but I do not attack the individual parishioners. Everyone has a right to believe as they will, but in that vein I also have the right to my own opinion about what I think of the concepts and tenets of a religion.

If someone else chooses to see that as bashing then it is their perception of it not mine.

Answer 6

I have never bashed another religion unless my faith was bashed first. I came to realize that it was an opportunity to show who is in the side of truth. Many times I feel I got the better of that religion. Makes me feel good afterwards.

Peace and blessings!

Answer 7

I hope that I have never bashed anyone else's faith. I think the people that bash others are really just wanting them to come over to their side. But they don't know how to explain themselves well enough and they get mad? This is what I am guessing.

Answer 8

some people get the feeling of superiority. but i dont believe in bashing peoples beliefs. because as someone once said, you cant gain strength by trying to weaken the strong...:"

Answer 9

frustration that they won't open their eyes long enough to even conceive that something else could be true. not trying to convert anyone, just want them to admit that there could be other ways since nobody has any real proof

i try not to "bash" anyone, but sometimes i say things that i know would offend them a bit, to get a point across

Answer 10

ppl can beleive what they want. I have no right to bash someone religious or non religious beliefs.